🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- A Lebanese soldier and five civilians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon today.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Clarification: Some of the helicopters observed over the Ali al-Taher heights, in the Nabatieh direction of southern Lebanon, were Israeli medical evacuation units.

Hezbollah reportedly struck a medical vehicle carrying wounded IDF personnel during the fighting. The incident has been described as a “mass casualty,” though the number of wounded—and whether there were any fatalities—has not yet been disclosed.

The IDF were yet again unable to capture the strategic heights, which hosts one of Hezbollah’s largest underground bases and provides full fire control over the city of Nabatieh. The night before, four IDF soldiers were killed, sparking a brief Israeli escalation and a possible Iranian retaliation, which required U.S. intervention.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Overnight, up to four Israeli helicopters landed at Rambam Health Campus, Haifa, carrying at least 10 wounded IDF soldiers.

🇱🇧🇮🇱 - Initial reports, one of the wounded IDF soldiers at Rambam Health Campus, Haifa, has succumbed to injuries sustained during overnight fighting at Ali al-Taher, Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

🇸🇾⚡- Explosions heard in the Idlib countryside, northwest Syria. Cause unknown.

🇫🇷⚡️- Claude Guillemot, co-founder and member of the board of directors of Ubisoft, died in a tourist plane crash in La Baule, France.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli outlet News of Israel reports that the political establishment is considering an escalation in response to the IDF ‘mass casualty’ event during last night’s clashes with Hezbollah over the heights at Ali al-Taher.

The night before, the IDF lost four soldiers, prompting a response of 80–100 airstrikes across Lebanon early the following morning.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Iran's Central Military Command has announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

"Considering the blatant breach and violation by the United States of the first clause of the ceasefire agreement, and in response to the continuous and relentless violation of the ceasefire by the Zionist regime in southern Lebanon and the ruthless killing and displacement of hundreds of thousands of oppressed people of the this [Lebanon] land, as well as the failure of the Zionist occupying forces to withdraw from southern Lebanon, we declare that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to vessel traffic.

This is the first step in response to the enemy's breach of promise, and if the aggression continues, further steps will be planned and taken to compel the enemy to fulfill its commitments," - Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Trump administration has opened back channel communication lines with Israeli opposition figures Naftali Bennett and Gadi Eisenkot, Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next few minutes outlining American demands in Lebanon amid the ceasefire agreement with Iran, Yaron Avraham of Israeli Channel 12 reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to leave for Switzerland, where he'll meet U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭 - Pakistan's Interior Minister will join the Witkoff-Araghchi talks in Switzerland.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "Hezbollah broke the ceasefire, not Israel. Terrorists lie. Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Hezbollah lies.

Iran is using its proxy to extract concessions. That is the modus operandi of the murderous regime in Tehran. Don't be fooled.

Israel has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon. Israel seeks to live side by side with its neighbors behind secure and recognized borders.

Israel is honoring the ceasefire while defending itself against the terrorist attacks, as any self-respecting country would," - Yechiel Leiter, Israeli ambassador to the U.S.

Note, Hezbollah’s attacks on IDF troops in southern Lebanon came in response to two consecutive nights of failed Israeli attempts to seize the Ali al-Taher heights, Nabatieh direction.

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🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- '‌The Strait of Hormuz has been completely closed for a while now.

‌Vessels should not approach the Strait of Hormuz.

Due to the crimes of the Zionist regime in Lebanon and the US's failure to uphold ceasefire commitments, the Strait of Hormuz is closed to all vessels.

It is emphasized that the Strait of Hormuz is closed and vessels should not approach it; otherwise, their security will be at risk," - An IRGC source tells Fars News.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "We are exercising our right to respond to Israeli aggressions from a defensive position to force the enemy to commit to a ceasefire.

The Israeli escalation seeks to enshrine freedom of movement outside the framework of the Iranian-American agreement.

The Israeli escalation aims to occupy Ali al-Taher heights and gain leverage over southern Lebanon," - A Hezbollah source tells al-Jazeera.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- An Israeli assassination strike on the east of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, targeting a moving vehicle. One killed and at least 10+ wounded.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Several Israeli drone strikes targeting buildings in northeast of Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Navy fires at the Rafah coast, southern Gaza Strip.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Heavy Israeli artillery fire on the outer districts of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.

🇵🇸🇮🇱 - Explosions continue in both Gaza City and Khan Yunis, but are not Israeli attacks. The IDF is currently demolishing infrastructure in east Khan Yunis and northeast Gaza City.